Responsibilities and Ethics

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Are your students using ICT responsibly and ethically?


Copyright Rules Explained
  1. Concordia University's Copyright Guide - How are teachers allowed to use music, recorded TV programs, etc. in the classroom.
  2. Canadian Copyright Laws - easy to read and understand.
  3. Creative Commons - search tools for copyright free material.
  4. Search for Creative Commons licensed works
  5. Classroom Provisions of the Canadian Copyright Act
  6. Creative Commons Explained

Finding Copyright Friendly Images
  1. Comfight - Set Creative Commons to ONLY
  2. Photo Laboratory- Free images to use copyright free. No need to credit photographer.
  3. Morgue File - Copyright free images with searchable database.
  4. Compfight- Creative Commons Images
  5. Animal Photos - Creative Commons images free to use without crediting photographer.
  6. Behold - A visual image search engine for high quality creative commons images
  7. Flickr Advanced Search - at the bottom check off the box that reads "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content."
  8. Stock Xchng - must have an account to download images
  9. Pics for Learning - Copyright friendly images for education
  10. PB World Database - mostly copyright friendly images
  11. Open Photo Project - Copyright information on each photo
  12. Free Pixels
  13. Freeplaymusic.com
  14. Soundzabounds - Royalty free music for schools
  15. Soundsnap - Free sound effects and loops
  16. Jamendo.com - Creative Commons music tracks
  17. Giant list of copyright free sites
  18. Copyright Friendly Wiki
  19. Finding Copyright Free Material - Alan Levine's CogDogRoo wiki page on finding copyright free media

Media Awareness for Teachers

Information Literacy (up to top of page)
  1. The Web...Believe it or not (.pdf courtesy of Cathy McLaren from Brandon School Division)
  2. Whois - find the owner of a web site
  3. The Wayback Machine - find out what a web site used to look like
  4. Information Literacy Quiz from November Learning
  5. Information Literacy Resources from November Learning
  6. Information Literacy Wiki by Hazel Clark

Media Awareness.org Links
  1. Jo Cool or Jo Fool: Interactive Module and Quiz on Critical Thinking for the Internet (Grades 6-8)
  2. Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) (Need license)
  3. CyberSmart Curriculum